"One does not build heaven by deconstructing hell."

"There are precious few at ease with moral ambiguities, so we act as though they don't exist!"

"Not all truth is bold."

"And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through."

"War. War never changes."

"The cake is a lie."

"With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him."

"Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him."

"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted--and you create a nation of law-breakers--and then you cash in on guilt."

"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving."